Churn-operating mechanism.



c.- s. WAYBRIGHT, CHURN OPERATING MECHANISM.

APPLICATlON FILED JUNE 29. 1917.

1L $473M. l Patented Nov, 20, 191?.

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"orIAnLEs s. WA'YBRIGHT, or srannrou, VIRGINIA.

GHURN-OPERATING- MECHANISM.

operating mechanism, and has for its object to provide a simple, etlicient andinexpensive mechanism of thecharacter specified, capable of use with any form of churn, and adapted for connection with a fixed support as, for instance, a wall or the like, and wherein a bracket is provided having open bearings for the dasher and a guide for a reciprocating bar, together with a cord adapted to encircle the dasher and connected at its ends to the bar to rotate the dasher when the bar is reciprocated, and a lever having at its lower end a separable hinge, one section of which is adapted for connection with the floor to permit the lever to be detached from the floor and to be suspended, together with the bar, in folded position, and wherein a special form of detachable connection is provided for one end of the.

cord to permit the easy detachment of the same from the bar and from the dasher.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved operating mechanism in operative position;

Fig. 2 is a front view with the dasher removed from the churn;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows adjacent the line;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hinge connection for the lever;

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a perspectiveview of one end of the reciprocating bar;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the operating mechanism in inoperative position.

The present embodiment of the invention is shown in connection with a churn consisting of a vessel 1 and a dasher 9-, which, in the present instance, is a stafi having at one end a fork.

A suitable supporting bracket is provided, the said bracket comprising a body 3 which is adapted to be secured to a fixed support as, for instance, a wall, a door, a tree or Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 29, 1917.

Patented Nov. 2t), 191%.. Serial No. 177,682.

the like, by means of screws as shown, and the body is provided at 1t-s upper and lower edges with outwardly extending bearing,

plates 4, which have notches 5 forming open bearings zfor: receiving the body of the dasher.

The body of the support is also provided with a vertical bearing plate 6 at its center, and extendingbetween the plates l, and the said plate has an opening? through which a reciprocating bar 8 is adapted to extend. This bar has connected therewith a cord 9, one end of the cord being permanently attached to the bar, as indicated at 10, while the other end is dctachably con nected to the bar in a manner to be described. Intermediate its ends the cord 9 .iswrapped about the body of the dasher, a

complete turn or more, and it will be evident that when the bar is reciprocated the dasher will be rotated by the winding and unwinding of the cord upon the dasher. Preferably, the body of the dasher is enlarged, as indicated. at 11, at the point where the cord engages the same, and this enlargement at its lower end provides an annular shoulder or stop which limits the downward movement of the dasher with re spect to the bracket.

The bar is reciprocated by means of 'a lever 12, to which the bar is hinged at the end adjacent to the permanent connection of the cord and intermediate the ends of the lever by a hinge 13. At its lower end the lever has a hinge consisting of separable leaves 14 and 15, the leaf 14 being connected to the lever, while the leaf 15 is adapted to be connected to the floor, and the leaves are connected by a pintle 16 which is removable. This pintle has one end bent at an angle to the body of the pintle, as indicated at 17, and a notch or recess 18 is provided in the fioor at one edge of the hinge for re ceiving this angular portion when the pintle is in place. Thus when the pintle is placed the angular end is permitted to drop down into the notch or recess to prevent displacement of the pintle. The detachable connection between the cord and the reciprocating bar 8 is shown more particularly in Figs. 5 and 6. As will be noticed. the bar 8 has at the end remote from the lever a longitudinally extending slot 19, and notches 20 are provided at the opposite sides of the slot and at each face of the bar, the said notches 20 having that wall adjacent to the permanent connection of the cord perpen dicular to the plane of the slot, While the other Wall is rounded. is passed through the slot, as shoWnin Fig. 5, and about the endof the bar and then be neath the cord, and the said end may be passed from above or below and may engage with either notch of the upper or lower series. The cord may also be engaged at either side of the bar, so that the lever may be arranged at either side of the churn to provide for right and left hand operators. v

' It Will be noticed that that end of 'the permit the full movement of the lever and bar. The lever is also'provided with an opening 20 for engagement by a nail or the like to permit the lever andthe bar to be hung up on the Wall.

In use, the parts are arranged as shoWnizi Fig. l, and it will be evident that when the "lever is vibrated the dasher will be rotated,

thus producing the churning motion necessary to produce butter. After the churning operation is complete the cord is detached at the detachable connection, the pin'tle is removed, and when the lever 1s suspended the lever and the handle fold into the posi form to Which the operating mechanism is connected. With this arrangement, the vibration induced by the operating mechanism 7 tends to'displace the churn, and the dasher Will displace the cover for the churn, or the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Gemini Washington, D. 0. I V a The end of the cord rounded, for the purpose parts will bind, so that the dasher cannot operate freely. Withthe present construction, however, the operating mechanism is independent of the churn, having no connection therewith, and, as a consequence, does not induce vibrations in the churn .Which tend to displace the same with respect to the operating mechanism.

The entire mechanism occupies but littleroomat any timefis' easilysetup and taken downand, wh le nexpenslve andiof simple construction, is: very efiicienti tor thejpUrpose. bar adjacent the lever and that end of the lever adjacent to the hinge are beveled to Y Iclaim': a Churn operating mechanism,comprising a bracket adapted tobe securedctoa fixed support and having upper and lower bearing plates having vertlcally allned open bearings for receiving the churn dasher, and averti cal lug having an op'emng tor'a reciprocating 'bar, a bar nountedto reciprocate 1n the opening and removable from the bracket, a

Winding intermediate 'its ends upon the dasher, a lever having a hinge at lts lower cord connected permanently at one end of the bar and detachable at theothe'r'end and end composed of'se-parable leaves and hinged] to the reciprocating bar intermediate the ends of the lever, one of the saidleaves being adapted to be permanently connected to' a' fixed support adjacent to the supporting bracket, said detachable connection of the V cord comprising a longitudinally extending slot in the bar, anda seriespfnotches at each side of the slot'andat each face of the bar, each notch having that Wall adjacent to the permanent connection perpendicular to the plane of the slot and the other "Wall specified. 1 CHARLES S.

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